To J.
Tears set in blood on a child's face,
A child betrayed by older men,
Dissolve with a blush of embarrassed shame,
As five long years of silence begin.
Confused hands tremble in a disoriented state,
And the worst of the world occurs in a bed.
Childhood is sodomized and violently raped
While innocent lives are obliterated.
This is the world in which we rejoice.
This is the church in which we worship.
We pray to a god who molests little boys,
And to muffle their screams we sing books of hymns.
This poem is about:
Our world